Watch Sir Anthony Hopkins as he hears the waltz he wrote 50 years ago played live by André Rieu and his JSO for the very first time.

Before taking up acting as ...a career, the Academy Award-winner was a musician. Fifty years ago he wrote a waltz but was too afraid to ever hear it play. Until, in 2011, he asked André Rieu to play his composition “And the Waltz Goes On”.

In a 2012 interview with The Guardian, Hopkins stated, “I’ve been composing music all my life and if I’d been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college. As it was I had to settle for being an actor.”